C4K Summary for February

Comment for Kids

Kaylea's Blog
On February 3, 2014,  Kaylea posted a comic review to her blog. She created her comic strip by using Toon Doo. She liked using Toon Doo better than Make Belief Comix because it was colorful. She
tried making a comic in Make Belief Comix, and since it was a free site, she did not have to log
in. The only thing about this site was that it was not very colorful. I did not know anything about
creating comic strips, so by reading Kaylea's blog, I learned which sites to use if I ever want to create my own comic strip such as Kaylea and the other students of Mrs. Reuter's class.

Nova the Soccer Girl
On January 8, 2014, Nova the soccer girl posted a poem to her class blog called, "L.A.X."  Nova is in third grade at Hong Kong International School in Mrs. Little's class. Her poem was about being famous. She said that she would love to have the paparazzi pick her up in a limo everyday, but
instead, she walks out her door to the bus. Nova used onomatopoeias in her poem. I like how she said
"flash, flash, flash," to describe the paparazzi. It is amazing how technology is advancing everyday and that students in third grade are posting assignments on blogs.

Jojo
On February 12, 2014, Jojo posted a blog about film vs. text.  She is a student in Mrs. Miller's class in
Baldwin County.  She said that she liked the movie because it was easier to understand to watch it rather than read it. She didn't know if the film had any similarities to the text because she was absent for the text. She only read the story. I believe that reading a book and watching a movie are the best ways to full understand a story completely.

Tatiana
On February 3, 2014, Tatiana posted a poem to her class blog. Tatiana is a student in seventh grade at Bode Middle School in St. Joseph, Missouri.  She used figurative language to describe color like the meadow mist. Figurative language helps give the poem a more real life image. Tatiana's poem vividly described the meadow with a lot of colors. Tatiana did a good job using figurative language in her poem.

Blog Assignment # 6

Personal Learning Networks

A personal learning network is a set of people or tools that you call upon for help to collaborate and consult with. You can also ask for other assistance. PLN can help a teacher in many ways. They can help by allowing the teacher to consult with other teachers about lessons. Teachers can relate their
lesson to other lessons and build upon them to best suite the class that they teach.

PLN are created by different tools. You can use Twitter as a starter. You can use Twitter to come up with a list of people that are in your same field and create a network with them as educators.  By reading the C4T blogs we are assigned to, as well as the C4K blogs we are assigned too, we can
become aware of different teachers who may be able to be part of our own PLN.

By listening to a seventh grader's view on a personal learning network, we can see how you can find information online and organize it on one page. This makes it easier, and helps the children stay
organized. All of her information collected on websites is kept on the PLN. This student has her
research and educational sites at the bottom of her network.  The top of her online network consists
of her social media environment. By having a PLN, it enables the student to have her own freedom in everything she does online. This is a great tool for the students to learn how to be organized and
productive. It requires a lot of time management. This is because since everything is in one place, you can get very distracted with Facebook while you should be doing a science experiment. You have to
be dedicated to what you are doing at the time. Other than that, this is a great way to have students be their own boss and keep up with their own work and assignments.

Stephen Anderson says that a PLN is just a way of extending your network of people to communicate with other educators across the world.  With a PLN, you do not have to feel like you know
everything. The PLN is a way of having someone else to talk to and collaborate with about certain
topics. "It really helps to have a PLN to extend a teacher's learning beyond the four walls of the school," according to Stephen Anderson.

I have never created a personal learning network. I believe it would be very beneficial to have all of my sites to visit in one area, except it could be hard to keep focused on school work if I
have Facebook available right in front of me. I think it is just as easy for me to create bookmarks on Google Chrome.  I have stared using the Google Chrome app on my iPad for EDM310, and it has been very helpful to just have all the websites I need right there. In a list, I would say my PLN
consists of Facebook, Pinterest, Google, and Blogger.  Like I said, I am not into technology as fast as it is approaching our world, but I have began to broaden my horizons. I hope that by the end of this semester I will have created a thorough PLN for myself to add to and continue using.

Blog Assignment #5

Conversations with Anthony Capps 

Project based learning really engages children in the overall aspect of a topic. In Anthony Capps video 1 and video 2, he discusses some projects he has done with his third grade class about PBL. Ideas about project based learning are constantly evolving. Capps explains that the goal of PBL is one that has an authentic audience, student interest, involves the community, and most importantly is driven by content standards given by the state.

One project Capps had his students do was write a letter to Joe Bonner. The students wrote what they thought about women being allowed to be in combat in war. By doing this, students had to find female figures that show female success in history to use the info to incorporate into their letters.
They found these figures by using iCurio.  Capps said his third grade class was really interested in this because many of the students had parents in combat. Only eight were sent to the the congress
man's office, and the students actually critiqued each other's letters. They picked the ones to sendoff. Capps said that this actually made the grading process easier as well because he was able to use
the students critiques to grade by.

Anthony Capps believes that iCurio is an online tool that allows students to safely search the web for
subjects that fit along with the state standards.  You do log in to use this, but then use it as a search
engine. This also has a place to organize the information they find online. You do not have to worry about seeing something online and forgetting where it was located. iCurio allows you to drop that
information in a folder and come back to it later to finish the project. This tool also has a feature that
will read the text off of a website to you. This is a great tool for students to learn and become familiar with for educational purposes.

From all of these videos with Anthony Capps, he discusses the importance of project based learning. I agree with him in the goal of the PBL. I also agree with him in that the best way to teach technology is to use it. By exposing the students to project based learning and different ways to use technology,
they are able to better understand and learn the concept. I am a much better learner when I actually get to do something myself. It helps me to learn the material when I can actually perform the hands on activity. Students are becoming more technologically advanced every day, and the more they use the technology, the more they will understand. Students will begin teaching teachers.

Project #3 Presentation

C4T Summary Posts and Comments

My first C4T Comment: "I am a student the University of South Alabama, and I am enrolled in EDM 310. We are assigned a teacher to comment on, and I was assigned to you. The Manaiakalani Film Festival seems like a very fun event. The students seem to really enjoy this festival. I am amazed at the confidence these children have while speaking in front of all the other students. These students are very talented in the arts.
Keep up the good work with this film festival!"


First Summary of C4T
The Manaiakalani teacher blog is about "living local learning global." November 13, 2013 marked

the sixth year of the Manaiakalani Film Festival. 3,000 students visited this festival that expanded to two theaters over a 12 hour span. These students came from schools around the town to visit and partake in this event. It is a very elaborate learning festival for children to engage in film making. Some students even partake in this festival by showcasing in movies. It is very remarkable to see how  much courage these children have to get up in front of the audience and perform. I think this is a very neat festival for children to attend, and I hope that Manaiakalani will be able to continue this festival for years too come. 






My second C4T Comment:

"My name is Savannah Price, and I am a student at the University of South Alabama. I have commented on your later post, and for my EDM 310 class I am assigned to comment on another one of your posts. I think it is awesome that Pt. England has "gone Google". It is really amazing to me that the students in the elementary grades know so much about the internet and technology. It is awesome that these young students are able to teach their parents about such things as Google. Google Docs is a great tool to help students enhance their learning on their own, and collaborate with other students and teachers. Technology has come so far, and I know it will just continue to keep advancing. Congratulations to all of the students and teachers who have taken the time to learn about the technology of Google, and good luck with technology in the future!"


Second Summary of of C4T

On Wednesday, October 16, 2013, Manaiakalani posted a Google video. This video talks about how
Manaiakalani advances with Google. A team of Google experts came to Pt. England School to make
a video with them and their learners. These young people really received an amazing experience
because they got to work with these experts, and their video was published on YouTube. Everyone
had the privilege to learn how certain people have to work together to create a film.  The Google education helps children and teachers work collaboratively. The teachers have seen that students with access to the internet are able to manage their own learning. I think it is awesome how the students of Manaiakalani have enhanced learning through this Google experience.